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ReboundEU
Profile Joined September 2010
508 Posts
May 19 2014 08:12 GMT
#181
Pretty much haha
U MAD BRO?
WindWolf
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
Sweden11767 Posts
May 19 2014 08:14 GMT
#182
On May 19 2014 17:11 Lonyo wrote:
Also I wish I had Skype for android..

I'm having an android and Skype works just fine for me
EZ4ENCE
BananaJunkie
Profile Joined October 2011
Denmark119 Posts
May 19 2014 08:17 GMT
#183
Wow! one day Google will own the entire internet
Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
wishr
Profile Joined February 2012
Russian Federation262 Posts
May 19 2014 08:18 GMT
#184
I feel good with that. Hopefully, they would imrove overall performance.
* Only girls complain about balance! *
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
May 19 2014 08:18 GMT
#185
On May 19 2014 16:59 BreAKerTV wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 19 2014 16:51 endy wrote:
Twitch service is already awful in China because they don't have local servers/nodes, but if it becomes a part of Youtube, then it will simply be blocked.

No more snipealot

I also wanted to bring this up. This is a big issue as well, but you might want to try looking in to douyu.tv, endy. I've heard that I can stream to this channel from outside of China and may one day be able to provide English broadcasts to it if you guys should want it.


Sorry I don't understand your post. Unless someone provides a restream on douyu.tv I won't be able to watch anything that used to be on twitch.tv


On May 19 2014 17:05 ReboundEU wrote:
Why would it be blocked? Twitch will continue as is because it's streams don't go against regulations. It streams games (MAYBE block some of those games). What u see now from twitch in China should still work.

Youtube is a whole other beast. You can put videos there lifetime and can cover ANY subject possible including delicate ones for which some countries may feel it's a bad thing. We don't want them politicians to feel threatened by the "internet truth" don't we? Twitch is just for games.

I honestly don't see how Twitch could ever be blocked in China as long as it continues doing what it did so far. Only difference now is u will see more adds then a teleshopping channel and also G+ integrated hardcore in it.


Youtube and G+ are blocked, so depending on how they integrate/merge Twitch into Youtube, then it will definitely be blocked.
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ReboundEU
Profile Joined September 2010
508 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-19 08:22:34
May 19 2014 08:20 GMT
#186
They already do basically BananaJunkie...and it will be 100% official when they put in practice that program of theirs to give internet to everyone on the planet via all satellites, they talked about last year. Every bit of information passes through google...and not just end-user data..we are talking government level data as well.

Should i also add they also know where u live? trololo

@Endy maybe they will come to an agreement to keep G+ out of it in China...they care more about viewership (which means $$) then to risk completely blocking it and literally have "a whole continent" less income...atleast that's how i personally think. Who knows what's in their minds. Let's just hope u guys are not effected.
U MAD BRO?
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
May 19 2014 08:26 GMT
#187
Also this is great publicity pre the purchase. Every radio station, news site and news channel is talking about this deal which is great for Twitch.tv and the gaming industry ^_^
Get more people looking at Twitch.tv in the next 48hours and potentially get more viewers. Will be interesting if Google does in fact push more people into viewing Twitch.tv
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ain
Profile Joined July 2010
Germany786 Posts
May 19 2014 08:28 GMT
#188
RIP Twitch BibleThump
Lizarb
Profile Joined March 2011
Denmark307 Posts
May 19 2014 08:31 GMT
#189
Of the big companies(Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook) that might want to buy, and could buy Twitch, I'm not sure Google is either the best or the worst.

The redesign and forcing + on people for youtube make me say worry. But thinking what Facebook would have done instead of Google, make me a bit less worried.
Only thing I know is that I know nothing.
Makro
Profile Joined March 2011
France16890 Posts
May 19 2014 08:42 GMT
#190
is it the death of Kappa?
Matthew 5:10 "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of shitposting, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven".
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Zax19
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Czech Republic1136 Posts
May 19 2014 08:47 GMT
#191
Hm, I'd probably take a good deal like that and cash out, although as a viewer I hope they don't sell it.
Really Blizz, really? - Darnell
crow_mw
Profile Joined March 2012
Poland115 Posts
May 19 2014 08:49 GMT
#192
Comming soon - can't watch a stream unless you share it on Google+.
Anacreor
Profile Joined February 2013
Netherlands291 Posts
May 19 2014 08:58 GMT
#193
On May 19 2014 17:42 Makro wrote:
is it the death of Kappa?


Kappa will never die. We all know that.
"Peter the Acretree chops some wood"
SixStrings
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
Germany2046 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-19 09:03:54
May 19 2014 09:01 GMT
#194
This would be the death of German twitch viewership, diminutive as it may be.

I will miss being able to watch Dreamhack.
Lorch
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany3686 Posts
May 19 2014 09:11 GMT
#195
Well given that I can barely use youtube as a German I guess I'll have to use proxies for twitch in the future.
I guess this may improve CPM for streamers as it's hard to have it be less than what twitch is currently paying, but personally I would have preferred to see Microsoft buy them over Youtube. At least with MS there is the chance that they won't fuck twitch with all the crap google have done to youtube since they acquired it way back.
nimdil
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Poland3751 Posts
May 19 2014 09:20 GMT
#196
On May 19 2014 17:47 Zax19 wrote:
Hm, I'd probably take a good deal like that and cash out, although as a viewer I hope they don't sell it.

Why? Google will probably be able to eliminate lag for the most part, thanks to a lot of data centers.
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
May 19 2014 09:31 GMT
#197
So everytime I said anything critical about the failure of a service that Twitch is, everyone was like "look, that's stupid, twitch is so small, they can't afford good content delivery, the gaming industry is sooo fringe, you can't comapre it to anything major" ... only to see that Google themselves think that it's worth $1 billion. Who looks stupid now, heh?

I for one couldn't be happier with this. It's finally a hope that I will be able to watch SC2 without constant lag issues, that the stream won't be interrupted in the middle of a game because Twitch just felt like putting all their serves offline for an hour. Because as much as everyone hates Google, their services have one unifing feature: they fucking work.

Also, I really don't get all this "Google ruined Youtube" talk. I don't know about enyone else, but I go to youtube to watch videos and what exactly changed on that? Oh, you now need G+ to participate in the most idiotic comment enviroment known to mankind? If you really, really care about that, you can always just make a fake one, as easily as you could make a youtube account before ...

TL;DR: It's about time!
"Jeez, that's far from ideal." - Serral, the king of mild trashtalk
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endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
May 19 2014 09:39 GMT
#198
On May 19 2014 18:31 opisska wrote:
So everytime I said anything critical about the failure of a service that Twitch is, everyone was like "look, that's stupid, twitch is so small, they can't afford good content delivery, the gaming industry is sooo fringe, you can't comapre it to anything major" ... only to see that Google themselves think that it's worth $1 billion. Who looks stupid now, heh?


Being able to invest in content delivery contracts/infrastructure has nothing to do with how much Google thinks they are worth.
cash =/= capitalization
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Thorakh
Profile Joined April 2011
Netherlands1788 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-19 10:03:31
May 19 2014 09:50 GMT
#199
As long as they keep Google+, silly copyright shit like not being allowed to play music on stream and monthly UI overhauls (the Twitch UI is fine as it is) away I don't mind it happening. In fact, due to Google's enormous piles of cash and infrastructure it could even end up being beneficial.
shell
Profile Joined October 2010
Portugal2722 Posts
May 19 2014 09:56 GMT
#200
good for the twitch guys! all their hard work paid off
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